Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 79

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 79

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 82 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:

Applications

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AccessMyLAN: AccessMyLAN is a cloud-based private Access Point Name solution that’s easy to deploy and works for any SIM-enabled device (smartphone, laptop, tablet, etc.). It continually protects users by filtering out malicious content and other online threats at the source.

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Ahsay Whitelabel Cloud Backup Suite for MSPs: Ahsay Whitelabel Cloud Backup Suite is designed for managed service providers, system integrators, and IT consulting companies, and it enables them to offer secure managed backup services hosted in the cloud or on-premises.

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ALM Octane: Micro Focus ALM Octane, a comprehensive DevOps management solution, supports enterprise application delivery with high-quality criteria, continuous visibility, and delivery across the entire application lifecycle.

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Aquaforest Searchlight 2 OCR: Aquaforest’s solutions designed for SharePoint and Office 365 improve search success by ensuring that site collections are text-searchable. The trial version of Aquaforest Searchlight allows unlimited auditing, which will allow you to determine how many of your PDFs are not fully searchable.

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Aquaforest Searchlight 2.0 Suite (OCR and Tagger): Aquaforest’s Searchlight is built to enhance searches in SharePoint and Office 365. Searchlight Tagger can automatically add metadata tags based on document content, and Searchlight 2.0 adds Azure storage options, long file paths, and time zone handling.

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Arista CloudEOS Router (BYOL): The Arista CloudEOS Router is a feature-rich, multi-cloud, and multi-hypervisor virtual router that empowers enterprises and cloud providers to build consistent, highly secure, and scalable hybrid networks.

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Avid | Edit On Demand: Avid | Edit on Demand brings the collaborative power of Media Composer and Avid NEXIS to the cloud, making it easy to set up an entire post-production video-editing suite whenever and wherever it’s needed.

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Bluesource Cloud Locker: Bluesource Cloud Locker, a scalable solution for storing legacy archive data, allows organizations to ditch aging on-premises systems and use it to store and export legacy email and PST files.

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Cerberus: CryptoBLK’s Cerberus gives IT practitioners in banks, financial institutions, and blockchain/distributed ledger technology companies a cost-effective tool for real-time monitoring and alerts covering multiple blockchain applications and infrastructures.

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Cloud Backup for Exchange Online: Cloud Backup for Exchange Online is a SaaS platform hosted on Microsoft Azure that offers anytime protection for Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, and more. Automatically back up your content up to four times a day with on-demand restore functionality.

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Cloud Backup for OneDrive for Business: Cloud Backup for OneDrive for Business is a SaaS platform hosted on Microsoft Azure that offers anytime protection for OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and more. Automatically back up your content up to four times a day with on-demand restore functionality.

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Cloud Backup for SharePoint Online: Cloud Backup for SharePoint Online is a SaaS platform hosted on Microsoft Azure that offers anytime protection for SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online, and more. Automatically back up your content up to four times a day with on-demand restore functionality.

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Cloud Double Check: Habílitas’ Cloud Double Check lets you send and receive SMS and WhatsApp messages in bulk as part of an information or sales campaign. The SaaS platform is hosted on Microsoft Azure and delivers live reporting at each stage of your campaign. This application is available only in Spanish.

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Cloudentity Authorization Control Plane – VM: Cloudentity’s Authorization Control Plane delivers a rich authorization layer providing continuous and contextual security for your users, APIs, and services. Easily detect and prevent misuse of your APIs via a threat intelligence dashboard that provides insight across your application ecosystem.

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CRP ERP and unlimited billing: Crol is a complete cloud enterprise resource planning solution offering unlimited billing and AI and business intelligence for small and medium-sized enterprises in Mexico. This application is available only in Spanish.

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Data Management for Regulatory Reporting: Analytium’s Data Controller helps banking, finance, insurance, and telecom organizations manage, process, and validate data for effective reporting and analytics. The web application lets users understand and monitor data and create reporting in complex and regulated industries.

Defend and Recover- Secure Azure with CSOC.png Defend & Recover: Secure Azure with CSOC: Secure Azure is an integrated Microsoft Azure and cybersecurity management solution based in the U.K. that aligns your cloud management to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, enabling you to address threats through Azure Sentinel and delivering managed threat detection and response.
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Demand Planning & Forecasting & Replenishment for Auto parts: Obase’s automated spare parts replenishment solution helps organizations transform data into actions for the toughest supply chain challenges. Adapt your inventory management processes to the fast-changing automotive industry and more accurately forecast inventory.

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Devolutions Password Hub: Devolutions Password Hub is a secure, cloud-based password manager for teams. It empowers organizations to easily vault and manage user passwords, along with other sensitive information, through a user-friendly web interface that can be quickly and securely accessed via any browser.

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GeoServer on Windows Server 2016: GeoServer on Windows Server 2016 is an open-source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, GeoServer publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.

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GeoServer on Windows Server 2019: GeoServer on Windows Server 2019 is an open-source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, GeoServer publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.

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ITM SPO – Standalone VM: International Trust Machines Corporation (ITM) addresses the issue of convergence in blockchain technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) with a practical, scalable solution that leverages blockchain to provide data security, data integrity, and data traceability for IoT.

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Joget DX Low Code Platform – RHEL – 10 users: Joget is an open-source no-code/low-code application platform for fast, simple digital transformation. Joget combines business process automation, workflow management, and rapid application development to empower non-coders to quickly build and maintain apps anytime, anywhere.

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Joget DX Low Code Platform – Ubuntu – 10 users: Joget is an open-source no-code/low-code application platform for fast, simple digital transformation. Joget combines business process automation, workflow management, and rapid application development to empower non-coders to quickly build and maintain apps anytime, anywhere.

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MiX Portal Software as a Service: Advanced Mine Management Systems’ MiX is a self-service SaaS portal that facilitates near real-time streaming of siloed system data to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub. Ingest data into analytics and reporting to help make informed decisions and be proactive instead of reactive.

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Modern Data Mart: Modern Data Mart enables users to build a simple data-loading process or a modern data warehouse in the cloud. Integrate your data sources and optimize data ingestion using the Ralph Kimball methodology for data warehousing. This application is available in German.

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Odoo ERP CRM to consolidate your operations: Odoo is an open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) platform that can consolidate a variety of business operations, from supply chain and project management to accounting and human resources.

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Oracle DB in Azure: Advatech Sp. z o.o. offers fast and easy online backup of Oracle Database on Microsoft Azure with cloning functionality. Back up Oracle Database according to Oracle recommendations and without downtime or performance impact on your production systems. This application is available in English and Polish.

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Payruler Software as a Service: Payruler is a comprehensive, web-based HRMS and payroll system locally built for Philippine businesses and tax structure. It covers the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment to retirement. Digitally transform your HR and payroll processes with Payruler.

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Red Canary for Microsoft Defender ATP: Red Canary’s partnership with Microsoft brings exceptional security operations to teams using Microsoft security products. Red Canary for Microsoft Defender ATP supercharges the Microsoft Defender ATP endpoint protection platform with the Red Canary Managed Detection & Response offering.

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SecurityScan Pack: Extend Solutions SA de CV’s SecurityScan Pack reduces vulnerability gaps to prevent information breaches, identity theft, and fraud. It identifies top security threats and provides a comprehensive vulnerability analysis with references and recommendations for better protection.

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Shoptimize: Shoptimize is an AI-powered, end-to-end e-commerce platform that delivers everything required to launch and grow an e-commerce store. Configure your store’s UI and UX, integrate payment gateways and logistics partners, and leverage market intelligence to attract and retain customers.

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SMART OaaS General Production Environment: Mint Management Technologies’ SMART OaaS General Production Environment is a secure and cost-effective solution that combines Microsoft Azure services, Azure Blueprints, and proactive migration strategies and execution for continuous modernization of applications.

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Spaceti: Spaceti’s property technology solution includes software that analyzes a building’s indoor environment, a mobile app for people in the building, and Spaceti’s proprietary IoT sensors. Get a precise overview of air quality along with the occupancy of individual workspaces, meeting rooms, and parking spaces.

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SUNSPOTS Governance Mapping & Security Management: SUNSPOTS.cloud is a multi-cloud, AI-powered SaaS platform for real-time infographics, mapping, and management of your organization’s governance and security. Automatically scan your cloud workloads and convert the data into easy-to-understand visual graphic maps.

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Sync Public Folder Calendars to Smartphones: The CiraSync platform automatically syncs the Office 365 GAL, shared calendars, public folder contacts and calendars, and CRM data to Exchange so that you can access accurate, up-to-date contacts and calendars on your iPhone or Android smartphone.

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Sync Shared Calendars to Smartphones: The CiraSync platform automatically syncs the Office 365 GAL, shared calendars, public folder contacts and calendars, and CRM data to Exchange so that you can access accurate, up-to-date contacts and calendars on your iPhone or Android smartphone.

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Sync Shared GAL Contacts & Calendars to Smartphones: The CiraSync platform automatically syncs the Office 365 GAL, shared calendars, public folder contacts and calendars, and CRM data to Exchange so that you can access accurate, up-to-date contacts and calendars on your iPhone or Android smartphone.

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Sync the Global Address List to Office 365 Smartphones: The CiraSync platform automatically syncs the Office 365 GAL, shared calendars, public folder contacts and calendars, and CRM data to Exchange so that you can access accurate, up-to-date contacts and calendars on your iPhone or Android smartphone.

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Syncier Marketplace Private Area: Based on the Syncier Marketplace, a public marketplace for the insurance industry, Syncier Marketplace Private Area enables users to create, manage, and exchange API services across their organization. Syncier Marketplace Private Area is fully connectable to existing API gateways and IAM infrastructures.

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Tag.bio’s COVID Financial Recovery for Providers: During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers have seen a change in the populations and volumes of patients seeking care. The Tag.bio platform leverages an organization’s billing and electronic medical record data to inform decisions that will help improve financial recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

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The Kingdom Software: Integrating geology, geophysics, log analysis, spatial data, analytics, and machine learning into a single application, IHS Markit’s Kingdom is an easy-to-use solution for the evaluation of subsurface data to resolve the complexities of reservoirs.

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Theator Surgical Intelligence platform: Powered by visual AI, Theator’s Surgical Intelligence platform puts defining intraoperative moments in the hands of surgeons so that they can continuously hone their craft. Theator is paving the path for real-time surgery decision support while helping create a stronger, healthier world today.

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Truck Scheduler: Truck Scheduler from Ceteris AG makes use of existing solutions that monitor traffic to calculate the estimated time of delivery at the destination. As soon as the planned time can no longer be met, Truck Scheduler sends update notifications automatically. This application is available only in German.

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Trusted Token: Envision Blockchain Solutions’ Trusted Token came out of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) Trusted Execution Working Group’s Devcon 5 presentation and uses reputation, reward, and penalty tokens to incentivize participation of member organizations and their employees in EEA groups.

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Unravel for Azure Databricks Subscription Service: Unravel for Microsoft Azure Databricks is a monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting tool for big data running on Azure Databricks. Unravel provides granular chargeback and cost optimization for Azure Databricks workloads and can help evaluate cloud migrations from on-premises Hadoop to Azure.

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Vormetric Data Security Manager v6.4.2: The Vormetric Data Security Manager (DSM) from Thales eSecurity provisions and manages keys for Vormetric Data Security Platform solutions, including Vormetric Transparent Encryption, Vormetric Tokenization with Dynamic Data Masking, Vormetric Application Encryption, and Vormetric Key Management.

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Webee Visual IoT: Webee is a next-generation Industrial IoT solution to increase the visibility, sustainability, and efficiency of industrial operations. Deploy end-to-end solutions in minutes with Webee’s no-coding, end-to-end toolset powered by AI, IoT, and computer vision.

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Workspace 365: Workspace 365 simplifies work with an adaptive workspace, adjusting to people’s roles, locations, devices, and browsers to offer a personalized experience. Take away the clutter and surface what’s important to each employee with Workspace 365.

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Xalok – CMS Content Management: Designed by and for journalists, Xalok allows users to edit texts, photos, videos, and graphics simply and quickly. Features include live image editing, easy multi-file upload management, automatic taxonomy, advanced search, metadata modeling, and live video. This application is available in Spanish.

Consulting services

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.NET to Azure OpenShift 4-Week Proof of Concept: In this proof of concept, Perficient will get your ASP.NET app running in an Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster. Having your app in a fully managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure will set it up beautifully for a microservices architecture moving forward.

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1 hour Briefing on “Azure Automation with Novunex”: Insight Direct (UK) Limited’s briefing will help you determine how your company can benefit from Microsoft Azure automation and the Novunex platform, a low-code/no-code solution for business processes.

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Application Migration: 3-Week Assessment: This assessment from Applied Cloud Systems will identify applications that may be candidates for migration to Microsoft Azure. Let Applied Cloud Systems reduce your dependency on on-premises infrastructure and lower your costs.

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Application Modernization 2-Day Workshop: Softlanding’s workshop will provide an overview of Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service and help you modernize your applications using Azure and Microsoft Power Apps to meet your business objectives.

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Application Modernization Assessment – 6 Weeks: WinWire Technologies will review your applications with the aim of optimizing your business and cloud investments. The process will involve envisioning, consulting, and scoping sessions, along with workshops and application information discovery.

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Azure Application Development: 10-Day Workshop: Tech Fabric LLC’s workshop will help you implement development strategies to automate business processes, safely connect data, eliminate manual work, and delight users with custom software solutions and the power of Microsoft Azure.

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Azure Cost Optimization Audit (3-Day Assessment): Forward-thinking organizations using Microsoft Azure are continually looking at ways to optimize costs and reinvest the savings into projects and initiatives that drive innovation. Hanu’s free assessment aims to save you 15 percent or more on your next Azure bill.

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Azure Data Platform – 1 Hour Briefing: endjin’s briefing will increase your knowledge of the Microsoft Azure data ecosystem and is intended for chief technology officers, IT directors, and leaders of development, data, reporting, or AI.

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Azure DevOps Innovate – 2-day Workshop: In this hands-on workshop, Equinox Limited will help you transform your development business with Microsoft Azure DevOps. Equinox Limited will give your team an overview of CI/CD with pipelines, automation, and testing.

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Azure MFA 4-hour workshop: This workshop from edgemo will focus on Microsoft Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Conditional Access. edgemo will also cover best practices, implementation of Conditional Access policies, and rollout planning.

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Azure Migration Discovery: 2 Hour Assessment: In this complimentary assessment, Parallo’s solution architects will examine your application and determine your ideal migration and modernization pathway to Microsoft Azure.

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Azure Sentinel 4-hour workshop: edgemo’s workshop will focus on Microsoft Azure Sentinel and help you put together a functional solution gathering telemetry from Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Office 365 to give you insight into user logins on your systems.

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Capture & Consult: 4-Wk CAF Cloud Assessment: In this assessment, Six Degrees Technology Group Ltd. will deliver a quantitative and qualitative analysis for migrating to Microsoft Azure or optimizing your Azure environment to control cost, enhance performance, and minimize risk.

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CIO: 1 hour cloud & DC transformation consultation: Insight Direct (UK) Limited’s briefing will guide you on your path to the cloud and demonstrate how you could benefit from a range of available services. This offer is available in German.

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Cloud & DC Transformation Advisory 1 Hour Briefing: Insight Direct (UK) Limited’s briefing will guide you on your path to the cloud and demonstrate how you could benefit from a range of available services.

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Cloud Adoption Framework: 1-2 Week Implementation: Applied Cloud Systems will put into place a framework so you can easily request and access cloud resources. Team members will be given access to the breadth of allowed cloud resources within compliance and budget constraints.

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Cloud Readiness Assessment: Two Week Assessment: In this engagement, Logicalis Inc. will analyze your IT assets and non-Microsoft Azure workloads, then present you with an assessment of the cost and effort it would take to move them to the cloud.

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Cloud Security Assessment: Two Week Assessment: Logicalis Inc. will analyze your Microsoft Azure environment and compare it against best practices for security, performance, agility, scale, and cost. Logicalis will then offer prioritized remediation steps.

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Customer Insights: 5-Wk Implementation: This package from Best Practices Consulting will implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights so you can obtain a unique view of your customers and discover insights that allow you to create a personalized experience.

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DevOps App Mod with GitHub & Azure: 4wk Imp.: InCycle Software will deliver key DevOps patterns and practices using GitHub repositories, CI/CD delivery with GitHub Actions, and artifact management with GitHub Packages. Also included is a proof-of-concept implementation of Dev/Test environments on Azure.

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Enterprise App Dev: 8-Week Proof of Concept: Solutions to specific business needs are not always provided by off-the-shelf software. AgileThought can help you with custom-developed software built upon Microsoft Azure DevOps and Azure Kubernetes Service.

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ExpressRoute Consulting Svcs: 8-wk Implementation: CenturyLink’s professionals will assess, architect, and implement a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute solution with Cloud Connect to accelerate your network maturity.

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Financial Cash prediction with Azure ML: 8 Weeks PoC: verovis GmbH’s proof of concept will enable clients to make cash management projections based on historical liquidity data. Data from the customer’s ERP system will be fed into self-developed models implemented with Azure Machine Learning and more.

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Free 1 Day Product 360 Workshop – Contact Us Offer: Agile Solutions GB Ltd.’s workshop will identify business use cases, infrastructure requirements, Azure architecture, and delivery structure for a fully customized Product 360 data management solution.

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Insight – ADS Foundations: 5-wk Implementation: Insight will conduct at least two workshops with your stakeholders, then will design and implement your Microsoft Azure data platform configured to a repeatable framework that is extensible for scalability.

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Kickstart Cloud for ISVs – 2-Hr workshop: Take the first step toward cloud success with Equinox Limited’s workshop, which will help you plan to move to the cloud, enable DevOps, and put your business on the path for continuous improvement.

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KoçSistem Azure Data Factory: Let KoçSistem manage Microsoft Azure Data Factory for you. KoçSistem’s team will conduct performance monitoring, resource lock management, and more. Simplify ETL at scale with this hybrid data integration service.

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Mass Data Processing-IoT Integration: 3 day Workshop: After this workshop by Gfi Poland Sp. z o. o., attendees will understand the general architectural patterns of IoT systems and how Microsoft Azure services can accelerate business.

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Modern Data Platform: 10-Wk implementation: Over 10 weeks, Hitachi Solutions will implement its Modern Data Platform, a solution built for self-service analytics. Modern Data Platform can be a catalyst for change in the way you create, consume, and communicate information.

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Regain Control Over Cloud Costs: 5-Day Assessment: Objectivity Ltd.’s assessment is intended for companies that have migrated – or are migrating – their IT solutions to Microsoft Azure and are now seeking to optimize costs.

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Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) 2-Day Assessment: Is your organization considering Windows Virtual Desktop? This assessment by Spartan Systems Limited will help you determine how Windows Virtual Desktop could be implemented for maximum benefit.

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Windows Virtual Desktop: 2-week Implementation: DXC, formerly known as eBECS Limited, will deliver a remote desktop and application virtualization environment for your business needs. This scalable service offering enables the deployment and management of Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure.

Experiencing Latency and Data Loss issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types – 07/18 – Investigating

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Initial Update: Saturday, 18 July 2020 08:58 UTC

We are aware of issues within Application Insights and are actively investigating. Some customers may experience Incorrect Alert Activation, Latency and Data Loss in multiple regions.

  • Work Around: None. 
  • Next Update: Before 07/18 11:00 UTC

We are working hard to resolve this issue and apologize for any inconvenience.
-Madhuri


Experiencing Latency, Data Gap and Alerting failure for Azure Monitoring – 07/18 – Investigating

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Update: Saturday, 18 July 2020 11:17 UTC

We continue to investigate issues within Azure Monitoring services. Some customers continue to experience Data access, Data latency and Data Loss, incorrect Alert activation, missed or delayed Alerts and Azure Alerts created during the impact duration may not be available to be viewed in the Azure portal in multiple regions. We are working to establish the start time for the issue, initial findings indicate that the problem began at 07/18 ~07:58 UTC. We currently have no estimate for resolution.

  • Work Around: None
  • Next Update: Before 07/18 14:30 UTC

-Anmol


Initial Update: Saturday, 18 July 2020 08:58 UTC

We are aware of issues within Application Insights and Log Analytics and are actively investigating. Some customers may experience Data access issues in the Azure portal, Incorrect Alert Activation, Latency and Data Loss in multiple regions. 

  • Work Around: None. 
  • Next Update: Before 07/18 11:00 UTC

We are working hard to resolve this issue and apologize for any inconvenience.
-Madhuri


SAP on Azure General Update – July 2020

SAP on Azure General Update – July 2020

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

1. New VM Type Certified & Generally Available – Intel Based Ev4

Azure Edsv4 based on the latest generation Intel CascadeLake CPU is now certified and supported for both Hana and NetWeaver AnyDB.  Hana OLTP and OLAP are both certified.

 

The VM types available are:

VM Size

vCPU

RAM

SAPS

Hana Certification

NW Certification

Standard_E2ds_v4

2

16

3,142

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Standard_E4ds_v4

4

32

6,284

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Standard_E8ds_v4

8

64

12,569

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Standard_E16ds_v4

16

128

25,138

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Standard_E20ds_v4

20

160

31,422

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Standard_E32ds_v4

32

256

50,275

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Standard_E48ds_v4

48

384

75,413

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Standard_E64ds_v4 

64

504

100,550

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Hana is certified for productive use on Eds_v4 VM sizes larger than E20ds_v4 in combination with Azure Storage options with the following conditions:

  1. Premium Disk: /hana/data
  2. UltraSSD Disk: /hana/data or /hana/log
  3. ANF: /hana/data and /hana/log
  4. Any storage type may be used for /hana/shared and/or /usr/sap/SID
  5. It is not supported to use Premium or UltraSSD Disk for /hana/data and ANF for /hana/log

 

More information on Certification can be found in the SAP IaaS Hardware Certification Directory and more information about Hana Storage Configuration on Azure can be found here.

 

All Ev4 are certified and supported for NetWeaver on Azure Premium Storage and Azure UltraSSD Disk.  Azure NetApp Filer service will be available for AnyDB later.

For a complete list of Certified VM Types for SAP Applications review SAP Note 1928533 – SAP Applications on Azure: Supported Products and Azure VM types  

The check availability of these Virtual Machine types in nearby Azure Regions here

 

Note: As at July 2020 the Edsv4 and Ddsv4 only are supported.  The Esv4 without an internal SSD disk is not supported.   

2. Confirm VM Availability in Zones Before Deployment

The powershell script below can be used to confirm which VM types are available in an Azure region prior to deploying VMs.  It is important to run this script using the actual subscription that host the VMs.  After planning the VM Types and zones submit a quota request to begin deploying

 

Get-AzComputeResourceSku | where {$_.Locations.Contains(“southeastasia”)  -and $_.LocationInfo[0].Zones -ne $null -and $_.ResourceType.Equals(“virtualMachines”)}

 

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In the above example B-series is available in all 3 zones in Singapore, but Mv2 is available in zones 1 and 3.

3. Multi-SID Clustering for RedHat & Suse & a New Fencing Agent for Suse 12.x & 15.1

Multi-SID clustering of up to 5 ASCS on the same two node cluster is now supported for both Suse and Redhat.

 

High availability for SAP NetWeaver on Azure VMs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications multi-SID guide

High availability for SAP NetWeaver on Azure VMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP applications multi-SID guide

 

It is highly recommended that prior to installing a Linux Multi-SID cluster a “test lab” installation is performed on some test VMs and great care must be taken to document IP address and port numbers. 

 

Suse now supports the same STONITH mechanism that is implemented for Redhat.  The Suse Pacemaker service is now able to connect to the Azure Fabric and restart a hung or fenced VM.  This functionality requires an update to the Python/Python3 libraries and the package for the Azure SDK (python-azure-mgmt-compute on SLES12 ; python3-azure-mgmt-compute on SLES15).

After implementing these packages the Python versions can be verified via the commands

python –version

python3 –version

4. Recommended Blogs for SAP on Azure Customers & Consultants  

My colleague Anjan Banerjee has developed some very useful blogs based on real customer deployments.  The topics for these blogs are based on questions from consultants.  For example “Can I run Business Objects on SQL Azure DB PaaS?”. 

 

Installation of SAP Netweaver ABAP 7.50 on DB2/UDB 11.1 with HADR (Highly available Database Environment) in Azure Cloud

SAP Single Sign-on : Kerberos/SPNEGO Setup for AS-JAVA

SAP On Azure : High-Availability Setup of SAP Content Server 7.53 with MaxDB in Windows Environment

SAP On Azure : HIGH AVAILIABILITY setup for SAP NETWEAVER with SAP ASE 16 DB on WINDOWS SERVER

SAP on AZURE: HIGH AVAILIABILITY setup for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.2 SP8 with SQL server on Windows

SAP on AZURE: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Setup with Azure SQL DB (Managed PaaS database)

 

The full list of blogs can be found here

Another useful blog from Etienne Dittrich can be found here

5. Requirements for SAP on Windows & Linux: OS Boot Disk

Several customer escalations have been traced to inadequate performance of the OS Boot Disk.  Based on these support cases it is strongly recommended to use Premium Storage for the OS Boot Disk. The same limitations and constraints that exist for Standard storage and that are documented in SAP Note 2367194 – Use of Azure Premium SSD Storage for SAP DBMS Instance also apply to the OS Boot Disk.

The minimum recommended Premium Disk for a large high performance VM (such as E64v3 or higher) would be P15 or higher. 

 

In extreme cases small OS Boot Disks using Standard storage can cause a VM to appear to freeze under high IO load.

6. Azure Storage Updates

Azure Storage options and features continue to expand and improve.  Below is a brief list of features recently released and in preview:

  1. Disk Bursting is a feature that allows certain disk types to temporarily exceed their quota for a specified period of time.   Note: the disk quota increase does not change the VM level quota
  2. Update to the Hana Storage Guide for Azure.    Key changes include:
    1. LVM Stripe Size recommendations have slightly changes in response to some new performance testing results
    2. A specific recommendation to ensure /hana/data, /hana/log and /hana/shared are always placed in separate Volume Groups. 
    3. Most Linux OS the IO Scheduler changes from NOOP to NONE

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7024299

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7024298

  1. Azure Files Premium for Windows SMB 3.x with Active Directory Integration – this feature is now in preview
  2. Azure Files Premium for NFS 4.1 – this feature is now in private preview
  3. Azure Shared Disk – this feature is in preview and currently under evaluation for suitability for SAP solution
  4. sFTPaaS – sFTP as a Service is in planning.  This feature would eliminate the requirement for VMs to provide sFTP services

A new blog will be released when Azure Files Premium for Windows and Linux is available for SAP customers

7. SQL Server Backup to URL – How to Throttle Backup Throughput   

Modern releases of SQL Server supports direct backup to URL to multiple target blob files.  The throughput to multiple blob files approach the Network Throughput Quota for a VM type.  When the backup network traffic saturates the VM the VM may be unresponsive.  Problems such as AlwaysOn initiating a failover may occur. 

To prevent these issues the backup parameter MAXTRANSFERSIZE can be limited. 

The precise value for MAXTRANSFERSIZE depends on the number of blob files, the VM size and other factors. 

Test values MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 3145728 and monitor network throughput and stability.  If the throughput is too high reduce the MAXTRANSFERSIZE value by half and retest.    

 

BACKUP DATABASE <DB SID> TO

<URL PATH>

WITH COMPRESSION, BUFFERCOUNT = 4, MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 3145728, BLOCKSIZE = 65536, CHECKSUM, FORMAT, STATS = 5,

     ENCRYPTION ( ALGORITHM = AES_256, SERVER CERTIFICATE = ‘ + @P_CERT +’ );

 

Additional links are here and here

8. SQL Server 2019 Generally Available for NetWeaver Customers   

SQL Server 2019 is now Generally Available for NetWeaver systems. The minimum supported release for SAP applications is SQL Server 2019 CU3.  It is generally recommended to apply the latest Support Pack and Cumulative Update available

New features in SQL Server 2019 can be found here

2779625 – Setting up Microsoft SQL Server 2019

2807743 – Release planning for Microsoft SQL Server 2019

2779607 – Configuration Parameters for SQL Server 2019

2922820 – DBSL Support for SQL Server 2019

2656107 – Support for Microsoft ODBC Drivers for SQL Server in SAP NetWeaver

 

Business Objects Supports both Windows Server 2019 and SQL Server 2019.  In addition to SQL Server 2019 IaaS solution Azure SQL DB PaaS is fully supported for Windows platforms on SAP BO releases 4.2 SP8 and 4.3 and higher

9. Update on Support Matrix for SAP on Azure  

In recent months many new features have become available for SAP customers.  The list below is a very brief overview of recommended features and updated documentation

  1. Proximity Placement Groups (PPG) are recommended for every SAP installation
  2. SuSE 15.1 fully supported for HANA & NetWeaver on Azure
  3. SuSE 12 Support Pack 5 fully supported for HANA & NetWeaver on Azure
  4. RHEL 8.1 – in testing.  RHEL 8.0 will not be supported for Hana and will not be supported on Azure
  5. RHEL 7.7 & 7.8 are not certified for Hana yet by SAP
  6. Oracle Linux 7.7 on Mv2 now supported
  7. Recommended stack for Oracle Customers – OEL 7.7 + Oracle 19.6c + Grid + ASM.  Oracle 18 is not recommended
  8. Windows 2019 – fully supported for NetWeaver and most standalone SAP components.  Hyper-V support matrix can be found here
  9. SAP ASE documentation update  
  10. DB2 High Availability HADR on Azure – HADR is available for Linux only.  Windows support is not released

10. Update on Azure Site Recovery  

Azure Site Recovery is a very popular feature for SAP customers.  The support matrix for Azure Site Recovery A2A can be found here

Use the “Find” function to search for support – for example to find “zone” to determine zone support.

ASR Azure to Azure now supports:

  1. Zone to Zone replication
  2. Replication from one Region to a specific Zone in another Region
  3. Generation 2 Images
  4. All OS that are commonly deployed by SAP customers Windows 2019, Suse 15.1, Suse 12.5, RedHat and OEL 7.7
  5. ADE for Linux and Windows
  6. Proximity Placement Groups

Transcontinental ASR (example: Primary in USA and DR in Europe) – contact Microsoft.  Some customers have asked about “Tertiary ASR” which typically involves Zone-to-Zone ASR within a single region and then additional ASR to another Region.  This is not possible as of July 2020.

 

Additional information on Azure Site Recovery for SAP solutions can be found here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-sap

https://aka.ms/asr_sap

 

11. SAP on Azure YouTube Channel

The official SAP on Azure YouTube Channel contains a lot of Azure Data Factory, OData, PowerBI, Single Sign On, IoT Integration to SAP and other topics.  Suggestions for additional topics for the YouTube channel can be posted in this blog or the YouTube channel comments section.

https://www.youtube.com/c/SAPonAzure/videos

12. SAP on Azure – Customer Success Stories   

Two interesting customer success stores are available.  A large Pharmasuetical customer Zuellig Pharma moved their entire datacenter to Azure including a VLDB Suite on Hana system.  This Suite on Hana system runs on Mv2 416 and 13 E32v3 application servers.   The project was executed by T-Systems

A recent Press Release can be found here 

 

Swiess Re has deployed a new S4 system on Azure.  The partner was Cognizant – the SAP on Azure Microsoft Partner of the year 2020

13. SQL Server AlwaysOn Setup & Configuration    

The setup and configuration of SQL Server AlwaysOn has been fully automated and integrated into SWPM.

The previous versions of scripts such as sap_revlogin should not be used anymore as they may cause inconsistencies and support problems.

For all new installations, migrations, upgrades and homogeneous or heterogeneous system copies SAP Note 1772688 – SQL Server AlwaysOn and SAP applications should be followed. 

Some recommended guidelines:

  1. Do not use sap_revlogin
  2. Use the latest version of SWPM available
  3. A failover from AlwaysOn Primary to Secondary is always required as certain objects can only be created in the active AlwaysOn replica
  4. After running the AlwaysOn Setup procedure in SWPM run DBA Cockpit in SAPGUI and check the “AlwaysOn Setup Check”
  5. Perform a test failover and check the ABAP or Java application server can start normally.  Check trace files (such as dev_w0) if there is any issue
  6. Check SQL Server Agent standard jobs are correctly configured on all AlwaysOn nodes
  7. Ensure Transaction Log and DB Backup jobs/procedures are configured so such that in event of a failover (planned or unplanned) the Transaction Log is backed up (to ensure recoverability and avoid Log Full situations)
  8. If the DB is protected with TDE follow the procedures for AlwaysOn + TDE

14. SAP Hana 2.0 Support Pack 5 – Released

SAP has released Hana 2.0 Support Pack 5.  New features can be found here  

2932865 – SAP HANA 2 SPS05 Revision 050.00

 

Hana 2.0 Revision Strategy

2378962 – SAP HANA 2.0 Revision and Maintenance Strategy  

2235581 – SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems

 

Additional Links & Notes

SAP Monitor for Azure is now in Public Preview.  Highly recommended to test this feature: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-monitor-for-sap-solutions-is-now-in-preview/

 

Learning Journey for SAP ASE

SAP ASE Learning Journey – Administration & Monitoring

SAP ASE Learning Journey – Installation & Upgrade

A utility to check the latency between Availability Zones  

https://github.com/Azure/SAP-on-Azure-Scripts-and-Utilities/tree/master/AvZone-Latency-Test

SQL Server releases, support packs and cumulative updates  

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server/bg-p/SQLServer/label-name/SQLReleases

Azure Backup for SAP Hana – support matrix

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/sap-hana-backup-support-matrix

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-vm-backup-faq

Recommended blog for Hana troubleshooting.  Highly recommended to load scripts onto every Hana DB instance 1969700 – SQL Statement Collection for SAP HANA https://blogs.sap.com/2017/09/04/health-checks-of-hana-system/

Latest news about SAP Kernels  

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/SI/SAP+Kernel%3A+Important+News

 

A very useful powershell script for parsing SAP NetWeaver trace files is below.  Thanks to Ashley Zebrowski for providing this.   Powershell is available for Windows and Linux https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-az-ps?view=azps-4.3.0

 

while($true) {

    $s = Get-Content .dev_w* | sls ‘<search string goes here>‘ -context 2 | out-string -stream | sls ‘2020’

    $a = @()

    foreach ($line in $s) {

        $date = [datetime]::parseexact(($line -replace ‘  C ‘,”), ‘ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss:fff yyyy’, $null)

        $a += $date

    }

    clear

    “Most recent connection drops:”

    $a | sort -unique -descending | select -first 20 | %{$_.tostring(‘yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.fff K’)}

}

 

Microsoft has released a new RDP client that is highly recommended https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-vm-operations-storage

Experiencing Latency and Data Loss issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types – 07/17 – Investigating

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Initial Update: Friday, 17 July 2020 20:14 UTC

We are aware of issues within Application Insights and are actively investigating. Some customers with Application Insights resources in South Central US 2 geographical region may experience intermittent metrics data gaps and incorrect alert activation. 

  • Work Around: None
  • Next Update: Before 07/17 22:30 UTC

We are working hard to resolve this issue and apologize for any inconvenience.
-Sindhu